Up and coming rapper Capo Young, Las Vegas native, says that place doesn’t matter to him much. Capo Young was born Dec. 29, 1990 in Hill Side Las Vegas. He started his music career by writing poetry, because it was the only way he could truly express himself. When he met a known producer […]
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Student has book signing
“Now is the time for us to know what comes tomorrow and not wait for yesterday to tell us what we could’ve known today,” a life philosophy that student and now published author Jordan Gaither lives by. Gaither held a book signing in the Barnes and Noble bookstore located in the Favrot Student Union […]
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Lamar releases a masterpiece of storytelling
Enter Kendrick Lamar. The Compton, California native has a knack for lyricism and song creation that’s similar to the great emcees like Nas or Jay-Z. On his major debut, Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City, Lamar defies most of his peers with an album that be will be remembered long after 2012. At its core, Good […]
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Spotlight on Grambling alumni at Homecoming
“When people speak Grambling, they speak of a name that is above other universities because of tradition,” said Valvasti Williams Jr., a member of the class of 1985. When you think of Grambling you think of tradition, you think of all the people before who opened the doors and made the paths for an […]
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Queens Speak
Unity in the Black community is a rarity today here in America. We here slang like my “brotha” my “sista”, but do we really know the meaning of the terms? Regardless, we have lost the true meaning of brotherhood and sisterhood. Social status does play a big part in this lack of unity in […]
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Visitor drops the ‘biz’ on students
President of the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism and the Reynolds Endowed Chair in Business Journalism visited Grambling State University Monday. On a one-day visit, Andrew Leckey spoke to a carpet laid and window vented room with over 30 eager students from The Department of Mass Communication on the importance of business […]
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Advisory council to lead Living Learning Centre
The new Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dr. Anthony Johnson, has put an advisory council in place for the Living Learning Centre in an effort to better manage and develop the program for the 2012/2013 academic year. The Living Learning Centre, LLC, is a Title III sponsored program. The program is aimed at holistically […]
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Professors publish multivolume book
Vernon L. Farmer, professor of education, and Evelyn Shepherd-Wynn, assistant professor of English, recently published a multivolume book about the experiences, struggles and successes of historical and contemporary Black American pioneers. In Voices of Historical and Contemporary Black American Pioneers, the life stories and career histories of 250 historical figures are told through biographies; […]
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Alumni concert to benefit GHS
The Grambling Laboratory School Gymnasium will host Tigerland music legends this weekend. Those in attendance will be Soul Pride, Leech and the Gang, and POLO. All will gather for the concert Saturday to benefit the school. Among the artists in attendance will be drummer Samuel Osborne, who has played with American Idol‘s Randy Jackson […]
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Grambling State featured on Yahoo! and CBS Sports
Grambling State University was getting national attention last week with two special televised segments about the institution. Yahoo! aired two online segments on Oct. 8 and the CBS Sports Network aired a 30-minute television show, The Road to Saturday, two days later. This concept is not new. The production house that does the work […]